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...choice. Women must be allowed this choice, otherwise they are slaves to their biology." She was applauded. (I wondered: has she never heard of contraceptives?) Another asserted: "Yes, we all know that abortion kills human beings. But without it, we women cannot plan past our next menstrual cycle." She too was cheered...
...narrator holds up a plastic doll which is many times larger and more developed than the fetus in the film, deceptively implying that the fetus looks just like the doll. He also says that the fetus is 12 weeks old, while in conventionally used terms (measured by last menstrual period rather than gestation) it is actually 14 weeks old. In the U.S. about 93 percent of all abortions are performed by the 12th week, when the fetus is extremely small and undeveloped. To further confuse the viewer, the film occasionally shows dramatic pictures of fetuses which were stillbirths or were...
...show, dancing and recreation. The call girls carried attaché cases equipped with a credit-card machine for their clients' convenience. Barrows' establishment, based in a brownstone, took 60% of each woman's earnings. The women had to shave their legs daily, and Barrows kept careful menstrual and weight charts on them. Those who got a bit flabby were suspended from work for two days for each extra pound. "She ran a pretty tight ship," concedes one police officer...
...surveys have found that such athletic women as distance runners, dancers and joggers can suffer temporary infertility. The reason is that their body fat sometimes becomes too low for the production of the critical hormone estrogen. Stress can also suppress ovulation; women executives often miss two or three consecutive menstrual periods...
...attempted to take up where the philosophers and alchemists left off. The results have been disappointing. In the 1960s Dr. Landrum Shettles of New York City's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center created a sensation with his announcement that gender was influenced by the timing of conception within the menstrual cycle and by the acidity or alkalinity of the female reproductive tract. A douche of vinegar, he contended, would confer an advantage on sperm bearing an X chromosome (for females), while a douche of baking soda would shift the odds toward the Y-bearing sperm (for males). Shettles' theory...